The Call of Troythulu

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Troythulu’s Nu’z 1.15.56

Posted by Troythulu on June 8, 2009, 18:54

[1] Magic Charms Wreck Swazi Stadium; Players have wrecked artificial turf at Swaziland’s main football stadium by putting magic charms, or “muti” underneath it…

[2] China readies its first robotic Mars mission; The rapidly ascending Chinese space program is setting its sights on a new target: Mars…

[3] Notes from an evolutionary psychology conference: Why won’t your daughter call?…

[4] Cool Monkey News! Chimpanzees remember the locations of all their favorite fruit trees, and their spatial memory is so precise that they can find a single tree among more than 12,000 others in a patch of forest…

[5] Albino trials began in Tanzania; Trials have started in Tanzania because of 12 people accused of murdering albino people and selling their body parts for use in witchcraft…

[6] Under the Radar: Unearthing Antarctica’s surface below 10,000 feet of ice; Antarctica’s mountanous landmass remains a mystery, but a new radar study has started mapping the cold continent and tracing it’s icy origins…

[7] Exotic Quasicrystal May Represent New Type of Mineral; A sample may represent the first natural occurrence of the complex structures, but some question its origin…

[8] Catching up with robotic submarines as they dive deeper into the ocean; Deep trenches, unexplored surfaces and a long treacherous journey; Sounds like a voyage to Mars, but it also describes the trip to the bottoms of Earth’s own oceans, about which we know less than even the Red Planet…

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